Nicolaas van Blerk

Occupation Details

• Nicolaas' occupation was First in South Africa - Born in Netherlands, Limburg..

  • Occupation Notes
    • Nicolaas van Blerk was a soldier in the service of The Dutch East India Company, and was seconded on the 29th April 1722 to the ship Haaksburg. The ship sailed from Texel in the Netherlands and arrived in the Cape of Good Hope on the 25th August 1722.On the 16th October 1722 the Haaksburg departed for Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, and it arrived there on the 20th January 1723.
      On the 26th October 1732 he returned from Batavia to Goeree in the Netherlands on the ship Ketel. The ship arrived in the Cape of Good Hope on the 28th January 1733 and departed on the 7th March 1733 and arrived in Goeree on the 28th June1733.
      His last voyage was on the1st June 1734 from Goeree in the Netherlands to the Cape of Good Hope on the ship Ketel. He arrived in the Cape on the 18th December 1734.
      He remained a soldier in the service of The Dutch East India Company in the Cape Colony until he became a Free Citizen (Vryburger) in 1757.